Note: 2002 was the first year of the Jeffrey Z. Rubin Award. IACM is alternating the Rubin Award with the Lifetime Achievement Award. The latest Rubin Award winner was announced at the 2006 Annual Meeting in Montreal, Canada.
The Jeffrey Z. Rubin Theory-to-Practice Award is co-sponsored by the IACM and The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (PON). It will be given to unique individuals whose professional contributions emphasize their ability to move effectively and skillfully between theory and practice in their professional activities. Jeffrey Z. Rubin, the noted social psychologist, former President of IACM, and director of the Harvard Program on Negotiation, was noted for his exceptional ability to discover interesting and complex social phenomena. He was known for his ability to conduct rigorous research that had important practical implications and to translate findings in a manner that was accessible to both student and professional audiences. The IACM/PON Rubin Theory-to-Practice award seeks to spotlight and encourage those in the conflict management field whose research and practice sustains this tradition.
The award will be given to an individual in the conflict management field who meets the following criteria:
- his/her research work demonstrates a strong competence in theory development and empirical research
- s/he maintains a strong research profile but is also active in applying this work in teaching and/or professional practice
- s/he is 10-20 years out from completion of their doctoral degree (i.e. at mid-career stage).
The award will consist of a plaque and a financial award. The award is co-sponsored by IACM and the Program on Negotiation, and will be presented at the annual IACM meeting. The recipient will be asked to give a short talk on his/her approach to "theory to practice" at the Annual Conference.
Candidates for the award may be self-nominated or nominated by a peer. Each nominee should prepare a packet of materials for consideration by the Selection Committee. This packet should contain:
- a full professional vita
- a statement that presents the candidate's credentials and the way these credentials meet the key criteria of the award
- identification of 2-3 selected research articles or reports that are indicative of the candidate's research
The first Jeffrey Z. Rubin award was presented to Peter Carnevale in 2002. The award will be presented in alternate years with the IACM Lifetime Achievement Award.
2006 - Lisa B. Bingham, Indiana University
Lisa Blomgren Bingham is Keller-Runden Professor of Public Service at Indiana University. Lisa’s strong research background coupled with her impressive national and international applied work in Alternative Dispute Resolution merits her inclusion in this elite category of scholars. Bingham began her academic career in 1992 when she was hired as an Assistant Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. Her earlier training and practice in law foreshadowed her theoretical, empirical and applied academic work on Alternative Dispute Resolution and employment law. She has published noteworthy papers on employment mediation, repeat players in arbitration and dispute system design. Among Lisa’s most significant contributions is her work with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), where since 1994 she has collected one of the largest quantitative databases of conflict management data in the world. The analysis of this
data has lead to numerous influential scholarly articles ranging from highly theoretical to applied legal to applied public management. Accordingly her publications appear in social science, industrial relations, public policy and legal journals.
Lisa has received numerous national awards and citations for her research contributions including the 1994 IACM Best Paper Award for Application to Conflict Management, the 2004 IACM Best Empirical Paper Award, and the 2002 Association for Conflict Resolution Willoughby Abner Award for excellence in research on dispute resolution in labor and employment in the public sector. In 2005 the American Society for Public Administration awarded her and coeditor Rosemary O’Leary, the Best Book Award for The Promise and Performance of Environmental Conflict Resolution. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future Press (2003). The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in its 1997 policy statement on mandatory binding arbitration of employment discrimination disputes as a condition of employment cited Bingham’s work on repeat players in employment arbitration in its policy guidance opposing mandatory arbitration for its complaints.
While maintaining this impressive research profile Lisa has been active in applying her research to teaching and professional practice. She has received five major teaching awards for both undergraduate and graduate teaching at Indiana University. She serves as a mentor, a committee member, and as coauthor to a number of PhD students. She sits on several editorial boards. She is a trained mediator and has served on a number of American Arbitration Panels. She is chair of a national task force on Research and Statistics for the section of Dispute Resolution, and participated in a conference of the Federal Judicial Center in Washington DC to develop a national research agenda on dispute resolution and court administration. In addition to her applied work with the USPS, for which she has received several grants for continuing evaluation of their REDRESS I and II evaluation projects, Lisa has also worked hard to establish ADR in her own community. She is the founder and director of the Indiana Conflict Resolution Institute (ICRI), a statewide organization for research and service on conflict resolution. She has received a number of William and Flora Hewlett Foundation awards over the years to support the work of the ICRI. Additionally, Lisa has generously donated over half of the funds she receives for holding the Keller-Runden Chair of Public Service at IU to the Community Justice and Mediation Center of Bloomington and Monroe County. This Center provides hands-on real world experience to Indiana students interested in becoming conflict managers.
Bingham’s work is internationally recognized. In Sept. 2005 she was invited to give a workshop for the Korean Supreme Court’s Task Force on Civil Justice Reform on Court-annexed ADR in the US, a presentation at a national conference for the Korean National Labor Relations Commission on the USPS mediation research, and a seminar at the Korean Environmental Institute. We offer our congratulations to Lisa Blomgren Bingham as the worthy recipient of the 2006 Jeffery Z. Rubin Theory-to-Practice Award. Lisa received her award at the
IACM conference in Montreal in June 2006.
2004 - Tricia S. Jones - Temple University
Tricia Jones is a Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at Temple University. She has been involved in theory development and empirical research in the areas of conflict education curricula, the role of emotion in conflict and mediation processes, and the role of communication in negotiation. In addition to her impressive record of grant procurement, research, and publishing in these areas, she has also devoted substantial time to practice. Her activities include facilitating and planning, consulting, mediating, and training in a variety of contexts such as the Pennsylvania Department of Education, the Division of Juvenile Justice Court, Philadelphia Public Schools, the Philadelphia Bar Association, and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Tricia's dedication to bridging theory and practice is demonstrated by her work in the development of K-12 conflict education curricula. Her work in this area has been funded by the Hewlett Foundation, the Surdna Foundation, the Packard Foundation, the Gund Foundation, and the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency; and has resulted in three books, numerous published articles, unpublished reports, and conference presentations. Tricia shared her research and experience as the invited keynote speaker for the 1998 Maine Conference on Mediation in Education, the 1999 Maine Conference on School Violence, and the 2004 National Conference on Conflict Resolution Education. Tricia has brought her expertise to the international realm in United States Information Agency (USIA) funded project to link community and school-based mediation in South Africa; and more recently as a speaker at the United Nations sponsored conference on "The Role of Civil Society in the Prevention of Armed Conflict" in Dublin in March 2004. She has recently received funding for the Conflict Resolution Education in Teacher Education (CRETE) project, the first national initiative for pre-service conflict education in Colleges of Education in the US.
Tricia also pioneered theory building on the role of emotion in conflict communication. This theoretical work has been put into practice through Trish's development of a mediation program called "Mediating with heart in mind" which trains mediators to recognize and respond to emotional cues in the mediation process (their own as well as those of disputants) and has appeared in Negotiation Journal. Trish has been invited to give several lectures and workshops on this approach and has conducted the training in numerous contexts including the National Institutes of Health, the National Communication Association, and the Pennsylvania Bar Association. Tricia takes and active role in creating discussions between academics and practitioners through her role as editor for Conflict Resolution Quarterly, the journal of the Association for Conflict Resolution.
2002 - Peter Carnevale - New York University
Peter Carnevale is professor of psychology at New York University. He obtained his Ph.D. in social/organizational psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and was assistant professor in the college of business administration at the University of Iowa, and then professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for 16 years, prior to joining NYU in September 2001. He has (co)authored/edited several books, such as Negotiation in Social Conflict (with Dean Pruitt, 1993) and many empirical and review articles in books and academic journals. His work covers a wide range of topics in social conflict, including cognitive bias and strategic choice in negotiation, third-party intervention, intergroup conflict, mediator behavior, and cross-cultural differences in negotiation and mediation.
In addition to his scholarly work, Carnevale has contributed to practice in various ways. In 1995, in a series of lectures and meetings in Mexico with government and civic leaders, including the Ministry of the Interior and several Governors and state cabinets, sponsored by the US state department, Carnevale highlighted the virtues of integrative agreements, mediation, and the design of dispute resolution systems, in particular as they might be implemented in difficult conflicts such as in Chiapas. Closer to home, Carnevale has served as a mediator at the Center for Conflict Resolution in Chicago, and he was the first psychologist to have expert testimony admitted in proceedings of the National Labor Relations Board on the psychological mechanisms underlying highly contentious and escalating workplace conflict.
